I’m gone. We’re gone.
This blogger will be in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from Saturday, May 21 until Sunday, May 29. During that time I will be a long ways away from email, Wordpress, the phone. Flush toilets.
Enjoy these classic canoe country postcards and wish us happy trails, if you would.
Cheers.
“Borrowed” from this very [...]
I want to repeat my support and admiration for the Hudson Bay Expedition boys, who have recently begun their canoeing journey from St. Cloud, Minnesota to Hudsons Bay, retracing the path Eric Sevareid and Walter Port took in 1930, written about in the great book Canoeing With the Cree.
Seventy-five years after Sevareid and Port [...]
Randy Cunningham explains the difference between the descending canoe culture and the ascending kayak culture on the web site Canadian Canoe Routes:
Canoeists wear their baseball caps with the bills facing forward. Kayakers wear theirs facing backwards. A canoeist will call you a guy. A kayaker will call you a dude. A [...]
The little bit I posted yesterday regarding the retracing of Eric Sevareid and Walter Port’s trip from Minnesota to Hudson’s Bay was simply not enough. It’s a fascinating story to me.
Here’s the basics: On May 1st, next year, two guys named Todd Foster and Scott Miller will paddle from their home in St. Cloud, on [...]
we got our canoe. it’s sitting quite happily on the floor of our garage right now.the cool thing is that the guy in the cheesy photo is using a fly rod. that’s right: okay kid… you paddle, daddy’s gonna just make a few casts here… okay, try to get us over by that big log [...]
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